Quotes.gg
Home
Tags
Terms and Conditions
Privacy Policy
Imprint
Made by
Last Media
Act
Popular Posts
#Tags
I act like a kid, and I feel like I need to grow up a little bit. A little bit. Not too much.
- Kian Lawley
#Act
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
- James Agate
#Act
If you asked me whether I would act in a film a year ago, I would have said no. I am just taking things as they come.
- Rhea Pillai
#Act
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
#Act
When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.
- Gail Bradbrook
#Act
One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
- Dalton Trumbo
#Act
Climate change demands a collective response. We can't expect other countries to act if we don't.
- Caroline Lucas
#Act
I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
- Odeya Rush
#Act
One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act.
- Angie Everhart
#Act
China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world stage. For example, we should want China to be a bigger participant and a bigger shareholder in the IMF. We should want it to be an even more active participant in the G8 and G20.
- Roger Altman
#Act
I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.
- Christopher Meloni
#Act
The purpose of an actress is not to just look beautiful and strut around like a peacock but act, too.
- Raveena Tandon
#Act
I want to do amazing roles fit for my age in 30 years. I'm sure I'll be less popular and have less offers then, but I think I'll be able to do act well for my age at the time.
- Song Joong-ki
#Act
People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment where horrible things are happening in front of you, sometimes you just need to act on what's best.
- Bob Morley
#Act
We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.
- Sergey Galitsky
#Act
I think it's important to make art for a myriad of reasons. The least of which is that I think laughter is medicinal, and I think there is an escapism aspect - an act of self-care.
- Natasha Rothwell
#Act
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
- Frederick William Robertson
#Act
Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
- Raul Julia
#Act
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'
- Evan Sayet
#Act
I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.
- Billy Crudup
#Act
I live or die by how well I act.
- Tobias Menzies
#Act
I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.
- John Goodman
#Act
If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.
- Anne Archer
#Act
People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.
- John Barrow
#Act
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.
- Bruce Babbitt
#Act
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
- Jean Toomer
#Act
I kind of always wanted to act, but to get a grant I would have needed two A-levels, and I was too far away from even O levels. I didn't know you could get a scholarship, so I determined early not to pursue that.
- Rupert Graves
#Act
Tony Blair adopted the accent of the audience he was speaking to, which worked very well initially, but then voters began to perceive him as phoney. The 'man of the people' act is the height of condescension.
- Jacob Rees-Mogg
#Act
I don't gotta act hard... People be getting face tattoos to act hard.
- YBN Nahmir
#Act
Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.
- David Milch
#Act
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
#Act
I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.
- Camren Bicondova
#Act
I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.
- Betty Grable
#Act
We got Defense of Marriage Act as a federal law from President Bill Clinton. And it was passed with bipartisan support.
- Kellyanne Conway
#Act
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
- Baltasar Gracian
#Act
Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform.
- Mark Warner
#Act
I've pretty much always lived paycheck to paycheck. I never considered it struggling, but it has always been a high-wire act.
- Hunter Biden
#Act
I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
- Chow Yun-Fat
#Act
Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
- Chow Yun-Fat
#Act
I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.
- Pearl Cleage
#Act
For me, life is like an act within itself. Everything I do is an act. Where I'm going is an act.
- Lakeith Stanfield
#Act
In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.
- Victoria Coren Mitchell
#Act
People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.
- Paul Schrader
#Act
My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera.
- Amy Bloom
#Act
When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.
- Lucille Roybal-Allard
#Act
I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
#Act
Speak less but act more.
- Jose Maria Aznar
#Act
There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.
- Jose Maria Aznar
#Act
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
- Val Kilmer
#Act
At the heart of Erisa is the requirement that plan fiduciaries act with an 'eye single' to funding the retirements of plan participants and beneficiaries. This means investment decisions must be based solely on whether they enhance retirement savings, regardless of the fiduciary's personal preferences.
- Eugene Scalia
#Act
ESG investing poses particular concerns under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or Erisa, the federal law governing private retirement plans.
- Eugene Scalia
#Act
I just act like a kid on purpose. But I feel like a grown-up when I talk to my friends and they ask for advice.
- Jin
#Act
Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.
- Arthur Blank
#Act
My job is that of an actor. As long as I get to act, get some interesting parts to play, get to be a part of interesting stories, I would certainly want to do it.
- Pankaj Kapur
#Act
What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control.
- Butch Otter
#Act
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
- C. Everett Koop
#Act
I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.
- Nick Mancuso
#Act
The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
- William Ames
#Act
I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support.
- Carolyn Maloney
#Act
It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.
- James Cameron
#Act
Because 'Gob' was a terrible magician, he was always, in great comedic moments, messing up his magic act. We used to have magicians come in to work on these tricks to actually get them wrong. But they still had to work. We had to bring magicians on to make magic not work.
- Will Arnett
#Act
I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.
- Erin Cahill
#Act
There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.
- Dennis Ross
#Act
If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.
- Warren Rudman
#Act
Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics.
- Ann Reinking
#Act
I'm really interested in passivity as a type of action - sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.
- Alexandra Kleeman
#Act
We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
- Karen Mills
#Act
I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
- Obie Trice
#Act
I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the decisions that have to be made by the President.
- Tony Tan
#Act
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
#Act
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
- Samuel Alexander
#Act
If a fan is cool, I'm cool with him. A fan could turn into a friend. But some people act super weird, and they make it uncomfortable for you.
- Quinton Jackson
#Act
See, on the field, you have to act like you are a champion.
- Shreyas Iyer
#Act
It's my mindset that I'm not where I want to be. I still want to be better, and I just want to stay humble about it. It's not an act. It's just how I am.
- Aaron Donald
#Act
The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.
- James Patterson
#Act
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
- Bernard DeVoto
#Act
I wanted to do 'Kanchana' in Hindi but many heroes I approached were hesitant to act with the saree and also demanded that the climax song be removed completely. I wrote the script with such passion that I could not agree for any compromise.
- Raghava Lawrence
#Act
I was already in the industry as a costume designer and opportunities to act in films came naturally. I must have designed costumes for over 100 films.
- Indrans
#Act
I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.
- Craig Roberts
#Act
I'm an actress and I want to act, and I'm a mom and I want to be with my kids, and it's trying to find a way to do both.
- Julianne Nicholson
#Act
I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.
- Michael Zaslow
#Act
I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.
- Pia Zadora
#Act
I'm not out here trying putting on an act like I'm crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They're the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they're told in front of the camera.
- Nick Diaz
#Act
I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
- Madonna Ciccone
#Act
Since losing his reelection in 2002, Barr has lost not only his power but also many of his friends. It doesn't help that after alienating nearly every Democrat with impeachment, he spent the next five years alienating his fellow Republicans - railing against the invasion of Iraq, the PATRIOT Act, and the Bush administration in general.
- Wil S. Hylton
#Act
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
- James MacGregor Burns
#Act
Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.
- Allyson Schwartz
#Act
After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.
- Jim Gerlach
#Act
My act is based on my life.
- Kathy Griffin
#Act
There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'
- Alan King
#Act
Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.
- Howard Berman
#Act
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
- Maxwell Maltz
#Act
My job during the EVAs, the spacewalks, is to act as the inside coordinator. I remain on the aft flight deck of the shuttle, and I act in a manner to help the gentlemen outside, my fellow crewmates, who are performing the EVA tasks.
- Alan G. Poindexter
#Act
I think once you're in the friend zone, I'm not sure how you get out. Well, actually, I do know how you get out. You act like the friend back. That's how you get out.
- Emma Roberts
#Act
There are different types of double act: the classic dumb-and-dumber, like Morecambe and Wise; the good cop/bad cop, where one's a bit spiky and the other's daft. Sue Perkins and I take what we might call the Ant and Dec approach: the double act came out of our friendship.
- Mel Giedroyc
#Act
I remembered staffing a volunteer table for ACT UP in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood in 1991, on the corner of Castro and 18th Street, and on my table were posters, stickers, and t-shirts that bore the same slogan in all caps - ACT UP slogan house style. I wore one of those shirts to model for passers-by.
- Alexander Chee
#Act
Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.
- Jeffrey Kluger
#Act
So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
- Edward Thorndike
#Act
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.
- Andrew O'Hagan
#Act
I'm an urban act.
- Maluma
#Act
Load More
Your experience on this site will be improved by allowing cookies.
Allow cookies